Word: odore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nose & throat specialists argued the persistence of onion and garlic odor on the breath was due to: 1) the essential, odorous oil of such vegetables passing into the blood stream during digestion, being aerated from the blood into the lungs, and then being expired; 2) the essential oil appearing in the saliva by secretion from the blood passing through the salivary glands; 3) the odor passing up into the mouth from the stomach during digestion...
Some time ago Dr. Howard Wilcox Haggard, Yale physiologist, by chance attended a dinner of nose & throat specialists. One of the rhinolaryngologists brought up the question of the serious hardship that some of his patients underwent because of the persistence of onion and garlic odor on their breath. Try as hard as they might to avoid these alliaceous vegetables, they occasionally fell victim to them camouflaged in soup or salad. Then for a time their lives, and the lives of their associates, were miserable...
...Armhole Odor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Odorono
...Diaper Odor...
...assumed by the ability of boodhounds to trace out individuals; but Dr. Laird hastens to drive home the point that a keen sense of smell is not confined to the lower animals. Many a good women who tells the history of her husband's club meeting by the odor of his clothes bears ample witness to that...